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When Video Game Romances End In Rejection

You can’t always get what you want. I don’t know about you, but I’m super into video game romances, as popularized by BioWare RPGs and things of the like. They’re my (and, I think, a lot of people’s) secret shame. It’s probably not healthy to get so emotionally invested in watching piles of ones-and-zeroes making…

The First Five Minutes Of Black Ops III‘s Hidden Arcade Game

Continuing the proud tradition established in the original Black Ops, Black Ops III has a hidden arcade mini-game, only it’s not really all that mini. If you’d rather find it yourself, close your eyes and ears. And maybe don’t read on. With news of the hidden game splashing about the internet briefly yesterday, Call of…

There’s a bunch of cute in-jokes in this teaser for Avengers Academy The upcoming mobile game from the makers of Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff casts the Avengers as teenagers learning to use their powers. Contact the author at [email protected]

GameFAQs Celebrates 20 Years of Tips, Tricks, Cheats and Walkthroughs

On November 5, 1995, a gamer called CJayC created the Video Game FAQ Archive. Later known as GameFAQs, the site was a hub for video game walkthroughs and FAQs, and later cheats, savegames, screenshots and so on. And that’s what it is today, only it’s a lot bigger than it used to be. While GameFAQs…

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 will be out on February 23. Popcap’s sequel to its plant-and-zombie-based third-person shooter, which is coming to current-gen consoles and PC, will feature a total of 8 new classes, along with a single-player mode and multiple new multiplayer modes.

Fans Are Making A 1:1 Scale Minecraft Version of Vienna

Vienna is a city full of historical sites, exciting architectural styles and most importantly, it’s not a giant metropolis. So it’s the perfect candidate for a crazy Minecraft project. Making a 1:1 scale version of the Austrian capital isn’t something one can do over a few days. The folks over at MCVienna have been working…

Fallout 4 LEGO Garage Has Everything The Sole Survivor Needs

Inspired by the rusty garage home from Fallout 4’s announcement trailer, LEGO builder Pierre made a detailed, large, awesome LEGO version of it. It’s 5 feet wide and almost 2 feet high, so it’s absolutely not minifigure-scale. Large enough for a power armor, Dogmeat, a bobblehead figure, a minigun, a couple of Nuka-Cola bottles and…

Black Ops III‘s Solo Experience Is Surprisingly Deep

There are certain things I’ve come to expect from a single player Call of Duty experience—bombastic set pieces, an in-your-face message, some sort of betrayal and a slow motion enemy take down. Black Ops III delivers three out of four, plus a whole lot more. The latest installment of Activision’s biggest franchise that doesn’t involve…

Celebrating The Game Boy Micro

The beautiful little Game Boy Micro launched 10 years ago in the UK, and I fell in love with it at first sight. Unfortunately, I was 17 years old and had just moved out of my parents’ house, so I had no money to buy one. I’ve been looking to pick one up every since,…

Great, Another Promising Star Wars Board Game

Fantasy Flight has a pretty good track record with its Star Wars tabletop games, with two of them—X-Wing and Imperial Assault—in my crew’s regular rotation. They might soon be joined by a third. Star Wars: Rebellion is a new game just announced by the company, and while the name and basic look may remind of…

Get This Game Of Thrones Mod, PC Gamers

The perfect Game of Thrones video game—a lot more perfect than Telltale’s one, which ate my save game—is a mod I’ve been writing about for years. So it’s awesome to see that it’s finally out of beta and wearing v1.0 after its title! You can get it from the mod’s official site here. It’ll turn…

Overwatch Player Steamrolls Entire Team With Kamikaze Strike

Overwatch’s giant hammer-wielding tank of a man Reinhardt has a powerful charge move that rockets him forward, catching any enemies caught in his path and dragging them along with him. Overwatch also has a lot maps with dangerous precipices to fall off of. You probably see where this is going. In a recent match (via…

The Witcher 3’s Quests Keep Getting Weirder (And Darker)

The Witcher 3’s first expansion, Heart of Stone, contains three main quests. The first involves getting a ghost laid at a wedding. The second is a heist that goes wrong. The third is, well. The third is going to stay with me for a very long time. USE YOUR WITCHER SENSES TO AVOID THE SPOILERS…

New Steampunk Outfits For Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Are Nearly 1GB Each To Download

Here’s a modern day video game mystery we haven’t been able to solve: Why are the download files for new Assassin’s Creed Syndicate outfits so enormous? A new free download that gives players a single Steampunk outfit for Syndicate’s twin protagonist Evie Frye is an 820MB download on Xbox One. The PS4 lists it at…

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I think this qualifies as a pretty good easter egg. It’s a hidden message in the PC version of Trails in the Sky SC, which came out last week after four and a half years of localization hell. Poor guys.

Age Of Ultron’s Android Savior Tries To Be Human, Fails

The Vision has always wanted to be human. It’s kind of his whole “thing.” This week, he tries again—harder than he ever has before—by setting up shop out in the suburbs with a synthezoid wife and children. “Even an android can cry.” It’s the signature line from the classic Avengers issue when the Vision is…

How A Video Game Glitch Became A Full-Blown Conspiracy Theory

The Binding of Isaac community lost their minds yesterday, in search of items missing from the game. Teases from designer Edmund McMillen suggested it was an elaborate, totally ridiculous mystery for players to solve. The reality is far more mundane: it was a joke, while the developer worked on a patch. Image Credit: TehHolyPancake If…

What A Typical Match Of Overwatch Looks Like

A lot of gamers have been losing their shit recently because of Overwatch, which just went into closed beta and is already fantastic. You might be wondering: Hey, what does it look like to actually PLAY this game everyone’s so excited about? Wonder no more, my friend! For the sake of clarity, I captured a…

Player Walks Through Fallout 4 Map In An Attempt To Measure It

Want to get a sense of how big Fallout 4 is? At least one player is already trying to figure that out. More and more of Fallout 4 has been leaking to the internet, ahead of the game’s release. The latest spoilery bit of information that’s floating around is the size of the Fallout 4…